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https://www.routledge.com/Britain-and-Ireland-from-the-Treaty-to-the-Troubles-Independence-and-Interdependence-c-1921-1973/Carr/p/book/9781032879871 History/politics lecturer. My views only. Books about British-Irish relations, Blair/Clinton, Chaplin etc

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · Feb 14

My book on Britain and Ireland from the 1920s to the early 1970s is now available to pre-order (sure, given the price, very likely for an institutional library - but hey, flag it up).

Trade, tariffs, and sovereignty - so very current. Also marriage and migration.

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Britain and Ireland from the Treaty to the Troubles: Independence and Interdependence, c. 1921-1973

Using extensive and fresh archival material, this book places the relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland after 1921 in a new light, encouraging us to rethink the dominant narrative of con...

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 19h

What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.

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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 1d

Latest article in @thehousemag.bsky.social - on opposition. What % of government bills do you think are opposed in full by the opposition? That is, what % see the opposition vote against at second and/or third reading?

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The Professor Will See You Now: Opposition

Lessons in political science. This week: opposition

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Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social · 1d

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026

More details:
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#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 1d

I think this was the sixth pledge

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t happen under Rishi

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 1d

On a train that is delayed because there are horses on the train track #brokenbritain

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 1d

Faith in cats ‘at new low’ as bird numbers tick up

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 2d

The LLM absolutely promising to do all that

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Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 2d

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 2d

Didn’t turn up for work for four years. 18 month bender in the middle. Embezzled the UK university sector out of £4 billion in the process. Only returned to campus when I was allowed to wear a cape and crown constantly.

My supporters when I dropped the Neighbours article:

A typically ludicrous tweet from Konstantin Kisin:

“It's time for people with Trump Derangement Syndrome to admit they were wrong.”

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe this is how people get to those "Discuss" questions

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 2d

Changed laptops last week and forgot to back up latest version of an article. So the thing I have left is about 2,000 stop-start points with a paragraph and then a disconnected notion like

Text reads: British-Irish relations have been framed too negatively. Product of high politics views of chuntering Tories and archival obsession with bloody Hatfield House.

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 2d

counteroffer: commitment to endlessly talking about the generic concept of research across multiple meeting and form based platforms

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 2d

This one is a bit on me as I probably should be able to see beyond it a tad, but I get irrationally annoyed at students submitting badly formatted, rubbishly referenced first drafts. Take those three minutes to give me a non-terrible first impression. Literally find the time to tidy it up.

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 2d

If anything - and *this* is the conversation they are afraid to have - less farming on the curriculum

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 2d

They’re all over harvest at primary

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely had a 7 year old describe the supply chain of a piece of fruit last week

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 3d

Kaleb Cooper, the breakout star of Clarkson’s Farm, has called for farming to be taught in schools so that children understand where their food comes from ⬇️

Teach farming in schools, says Kaleb Cooper — it saved me

The star of the TV series Clarkson’s Farm tells the Cheltenham Literature Festival that ‘everyone should know how to grow potatoes and other vegetables’

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 3d

“-1 kind of PhD candidate, this one” (this is great!)

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a bit in Quickly Kevin - admittedly a hub for this worldview - where one of the guys, Michael Marden I think, essentially invented a gap year to just play Championship Manager.

I think I take my whole understanding of potential from it, certainly.

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 3d

Only three sources on JSTOR reference the existence of Championship Manager. My childhood is a walking lacuna in our collective understanding of the 1990s.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.

Tech-Based Teaching @edutecheditor.bsky.social · 4d

“Since 1991, the video game Civilization, now in its seventh installment, has become one of the most successful game franchises ever. That means millions of kids have grown up with Civ as one of their formative ways of thinking about history.” (via @jstor.bsky.social) #AcademicSky

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 3d

Rory Sutherland getting fourteen hours of waffle out of this

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d

"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"

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poster of great western railways visit cornwall it better than italy advertising campaign

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently one accused the other of being woke whilst maintaining these are the conversations we need to be having

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 3d

The dispute is a classic ownership issue over a bird meal combined with general territory nonsense

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 3d

Like Attenborough I’m not getting involved, got to let nature take its course